Avira antivirus has found two viruses on my computer...? ... and it has put them on quarantine. Do I need to do something else? Is my computer safe? Why did avira put them on quarantine? Would it not be better/safer for avira to delete the files? Thanks!!!_______________

comes up under the google search definition/description of their website. interesting they have that there. I did not investigate the site very good sorry to say... weird that they would say linux. eh?

chironti wrote:Avira antivirus has found two viruses on my computer...? ... and it has put them on quarantine. Do I need to do something else? Is my computer safe? Why did avira put them on quarantine? Would it not be better/safer for avira to delete the files? Thanks!!!

Check the Preferences/Options menu and you can probably choose to delete or quarantine the files. Some choose to quarantine in case they need to extract data from the infected files. Some AV companies will use the files to create new definitions when an unknown infected file is sent to them for investigation.

As far as doing something else: depends on what was found, where it was found, and if it is something you need.

I use Avast! on my Windows partition, and it does the same thing by default, quarantining the virus and then giving the user the choice of how to proceed from there. I imagine Avira is the same way. As suggested above, this should be easy to change under Preferences; in Avast! it's a one click change to have the viruses deleted automatically rather than held for later review.